{"id":468,"date":"2008-11-26T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-11-26T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:58:26","slug":"emirates-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0035.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-469\" title=\"dsc_0035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0035-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0035-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0035.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile over for dinner at Barbara and Mark&#8217;s house in Mirdif the other night, I had a little too much wine. So I decided to take some pretty pictures while Elizabeth was driving us home. I kind of like the effect though so I&#8217;m posting them. The light that you can see over the horizon in some shots is the Burj Dubai which when it isn&#8217;t blurred at 120k\/h is really stunning from that distance across the desert. Unfortunately, we forgot the camera in the car while we were at dinner. I promise the next time that we will get some photos of them and their villa. It&#8217;s really quaint and they have a nice little backyard. Their two little girls are incredibly sweet. Barbara teaches alongside Elizabeth at AUD. Mark is an engineer. He&#8217;s from Jamaica and she&#8217;s from Toronto. Mark makes a wicked grilled barracuda.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0043-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0043\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0043-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0043.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0034-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0034\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0034-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0034.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0032-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0032\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0032-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0032.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0029-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0029\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0029-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0029.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0027-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0027\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0027-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0027.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0026-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0026\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0026-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0026.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0023-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dsc_0023\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0023-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dsc_0023.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While over for dinner at Barbara and Mark&#8217;s house in Mirdif the other night, I had a little too much wine. So I decided to take some pretty pictures while Elizabeth was driving us home. I kind of like the effect though so I&#8217;m posting them. The light that you can see over the horizon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/?p=468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emirates Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalarabia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}